A Pair of Cable Upfront Pitches Suggests a Better Mood on Madison Avenue
Andrei Jackamets/Bravo Caroline Manzo, Teresa Giudice and Dina Manzo from Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New Jersey.”

Real Housewives Pose for the Party
The cast members of The Real Housewives of New Jersey; Teresa Giudice, Jacqueline Laurita, and Caroline and Dina Manzo, pose outside the Bravo UpFront

Real NJ Housewife Defends MTV's Jersey Shore
New Jerseyites unite! Real Housewives of New Jersey star Caroline Manzo is standing up for the cast of that other Reality show set in her home state, MTV's Jersey Shore . PHOTOS: See stars (like Angelina Jolie) with Snooki's hair! "They are young kids doing their thing," Manzo told UsMagazine.com of Snooki , " The Situation " and the gang during Wednesday's Bravo Upfronts at New York's Skylight Studios. QUIZ: See if you can speak "Jersey" Manzo, a married 50 year-old mom of three,...

Real NJ Housewife Defends MTV's Jersey Shore
New Jerseyites unite! Real Housewives of New Jersey star Caroline Manzo is standing up for the cast of that other Reality show set in her home state, MTV's Jersey Shore . PHOTOS: See stars (like Angelina Jolie) with Snooki's hair! "They are young kids doing their thing," Manzo told UsMagazine.com of Snooki , "The Situation" and the gang during Wednesday's Bravo Upfronts at New York's Skylight Studios. QUIZ: See if you can speak "Jersey" Manzo, a married 50 year-old mom of three,...

It's A Battle Of The Bad Bravo Hair! Who's Got The Scariest Reality Hair?
Getty Images (4) Extensions and wigs and weaves, oh my! Not only are our favorite Bravo shows chock full of drama, they’re also full of awful, totally terrible hair. Just check out all the bad styles at Bravo’s 2010 Upfront Party in NYC on Mar. 10. NeNe Leakes of The Real Housewives of Atlanta insists on wearing her hair in one of the most intense comb overs I’ve ever seen. While her fellow Atlanta housewife, Kim Zolciak notoriously wears the most heinous wigs around. For someone who plan...

NJ Housewives Talks Jersey Shore!
Real Housewives of New Jersey star Caroline Manzo has no gripes with MTV’s newest hit show, The Jersey Shore ! “They are young kids doing their thing,” Manzo told Usmagazine.com of Snooki and the gang during Wednesday’s Bravo Upfronts at New York’s Skylight Studios. The 50-year-old housewife isn’t offended by their crazy antics, unruly behavior and intense fist pumping. Considering that the majority of the Jersey Shore cast members aren’t...

Bethenny Frankel's burgeoning bump
Reality star mom-to-be Bethenny Frankel showed off her bump in a little black dress at this week’s Bravo Media 2010 Upfront Party in New York.   The Real Housewives of New York star is planning more than just a nursery - she’s also got a wedding coming up, to fiance Jason Hoppy.  

'Midnight Knitter' Covering New Jersey Town in Yarn
The New Jersey town of Cape May has been thrown for a "loop" after an anonymous knitter embellished a local park's trees and lampposts with colorful knit garments , the Press of Atlantic City reports. The knit sleeves (or Leggings, if you like) started appearing in late February, and the sartorial stitch-up has townspeople on the hunt for the "midnight knitter ," according to the paper. "We don't know who it is," Mayor Pam Kaithern told the paper. "Technically, they shouldn't be doing it....

New Jersey Man Held In Yemen After Al-Qaida Sweep
March 11, 2010 He was raised in New Jersey, where he was on the high school wrestling team and earned a black belt in karate. Nearly a decade later, Sharif Mobley is a former nuclear plant worker under arrest in Yemen, suspected of being an al-Qaida member and accused of killing a guard in an attempt to break out of a Hospital. While some acquaintances were startled by the News out of the Middle East on Thursday, a former classmate said that Mobley had strong religious views in high school,...

Father Impregnates Own Daughters to Create 'Pure' Family, police say
PATERSON, N.J. -- A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three, beating his children with wooden boards and even moving at one point to avoid child welfare investigators.

New Jersey man suspect in Yemen rampage
Federal authorities are investigating a New Jersey man suspected of being an al Qaeda member and going on a deadly rampage at a Hospital in Yemen.

Schundler helping kick off education campaign in Jersey City
Amanda Brown/Star-Ledger Photo Newly confirmed New Jersey Commissioner of Education Bret Schundler, left, will attend an education reform kick-off in Jersey City tonight with Jersey City Councilman Steven Fulop. State Commissioner of Education Brett Schundler will be in Jersey City tonight for the kick-off of a New campaign to improve Jersey City schools. The event is sponsored by Ward E Councilman Steven Fulop and also includes Shelley Skinner, founder of Jersey City Families for...

Municipal consolidation must be New Jersey's historic moment
BY GINA GENOVESE NEWJERSEYNEWSOOM. COM COMMENTARY It is widely anticipated that Gov. Chris Christie's first budget message, to be delivered on March 16, will show the harsh reality of New Jersey's

PSEG rolling out renewable energy plan for New Jersey
Wind and solar incorporated into the traditional Fossil fuel strategy BY JOE TYRRELL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM. COM New technologies, New policies and New media can pose challenges for even the largest corpor

Clinton's Billy Murray returns to New Jersey with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
BY ANTHONY STOECKERT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM. COM Billy Murray spends lot of time clowning around - and getting paid for it. For the past five months, the Clinton native has been touring the country as a

Weekend rain could produce flooding in NJ
Another major storm is headed toward New Jersey, but this time forecasters say it will bring lots of rain instead of snow.

New Jersey's Biggest Pot Bust a Tragedy, Most Readers Say
The bold link at Drudge reads, "Cop follows his nose to largest pot bust in NJ state history." And it was a big one, too. Yet polling on the issue at the NBC Philadelphia website revealed even more surprising News: 41% of readers are sad over the bust. As currently linked at the Drudge Report, a News story from the NBC Philadelphia website tells the tale of Monroe County Police Officer Thomas Lucasiewicz, who smelled burning Marijuana and followed his nose and the aroma right into the biggest...

'Midnight Knitter' baffles police in West Cape May, New Jersey
You know of graffiti artists who strike under the cover of night, spraying their artwork on available surfaces. And you've likely heard of guerrilla gardeners who like to plant gardens in barren urban corners. But guerrilla knitting? West Cape May, N.J. - Making sweaters for trees is a relatively New phenomenon. The nightly art installations have been the source of pleasure for many residents of West Cape May, New Jersey, but police say it's still a crime. The unknown knitter has been ...

Continental flight strikes birds, is forced to return to Newark airport
Continental Airlines planes sit at the terminal at Newark Liberty Airport in this 2008 file photo. A Continental flight today was forced to return to the airport after it struck a flock of birds. NEWARK — Two jetliners crossed paths with flocks of Canada geese shortly after taking off from airports on consecutive days in New York and New Jersey, and the collisions with the large birds forced the pilots to make emergency landings. No one was hurt. A US Airways jet headed to Charlotte, N.C.,...

N.J. bear hunt faces potential lawsuit from opposition group
A black bear wanders through the side yard of a home located on Brook Valley Road in Kinnelon in this 2006 file photo. TRENTON — A group opposed to killing bears says it is suing the New Jersey Fish and Game Council, two days after the council voted to authorize the state's first black bear hunt in five years. The Bear Education and Resource Group claims the council violated the Open Public Meeting Act, which requires the council to allow members of the public to attend its meetings. In a...

Vampire Weekend ready to hit the road
Sometimes, life in Vampire Weekend can be a bit of a pain in the neck. "This is the first stretch of multiple days off we'd had in quite some time," says drummer Chris Tomson over a misbehaving cellphone in his parents' New Jersey home. "I'm taking advantage of this time to do pretty much nothing but relax. When we're on tour, there's so much to do that it's nice to turn off for a couple of days." He'd better enjoy the downtime while he can. Tomson and his bandmates - singer-guitarist...

New Jersey Gov. Christie creates task force to look into privatizing state jobs to save money
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie created a task force Thursday to look at ways to privatize state jobs to save money as he tries to find a plug for a projected $11 billion budget deficit for the 2011 fiscal year. Christie signed an executive order creating the five-person group to look "at every aspect of the way government does business." He said privatization could narrow the scope of public services provided by the state's nearly 75,000 workers and increase efficiency....

Officials: Al-Qaida suspect from New Jersey asked his Yemeni guard to pray before shooting him
SAN'A, Yemen — The U.S. al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen had persuaded his guard to unshackle him so the two could pray together and then snatched his unattended Gun and killed him during the suspect's failed escape attempt, senior security officials said Saturday. Sharif Mobley, a 26-year-old American of Somali descent, had traveled to Yemen two years ago, ostensibly to study Arabic, and was recently arrested there in a sweep against al-Qaida. Mobley made his bold escape attempt March...